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The rental TV that never holds your password
Today you either lend guests your own Netflix — against the sharing rules, with a password rotation every checkout — or you hand them a bare TV. Hotels solved this with racks of casting hardware. An apartment needs software.
Per property, all TVs included: expected at $9 a month, $6 for the founding list.
How a stay would run
Three moments — two of them automatic.
- 1
Before check-in
The booking's name and dates flow to the TV. The guest walks in to a screen that greets them, shows the Wi-Fi password and the house's five rules — the ones nobody reads in the binder.
- 2
During the stay
The launcher shows Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, Disney+ and friends. The guest signs in exactly like in a hotel that got casting right: their account, their watchlist, their profiles. Your accounts are not on the device.
- 3
At checkout
One tap in your host app — or automatically at checkout time — and every session is wiped: logins, searches, continue-watching. The next guest inherits a clean TV, not a stranger's recommendations.
No password rotation. No 'please remember to log out' card that guests ignore. No 11pm revelation that someone from March is still on your account.
Against what hosts actually do today
Four real strategies from the host forums, priced honestly.
| What matters | Guest TV | Share your Netflix | Hotel casting kit | Bare TV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up-front hardware | None — uses the TV's own Android TV | None | $30–60 per TV + ~$230 appliance | None |
| Monthly cost | $9 per property (expected) | "Free" — plus your plan upgrade for extra members | ~$3 per TV, hotel contracts | $0 |
| Whose account watches | The guest's own | Yours, against paid-sharing rules | The guest's own | Nobody's |
| Work per checkout | Zero — auto-wipe | Change password, kick devices | Zero | Zero |
| Welcome screen with house info | Yes — name, Wi-Fi, rules, checkout | No | Hotel-branded, per contract | No |
Casting-kit prices from public pages of RoomCast, Cast Gateway and OnlyCast, August 2026. If you run forty rooms, those products are the right answer — this one is for the host with one to five.
Expected launch price
Published before the product exists, on purpose: if $9 a month reads as too much for your operation, that is signal we want now, not after building it.
Expected launch price
$9per month
Founder price$6 per month
Per property, all TVs included. Runs on the Android TV most sets already ship with — no extra hardware, no hotel appliance.
This product does not exist yet. The number above is the price we expect to launch at, not a commitment. If the waitlist says it is wrong, it changes.
What the price covers
- One property, every TV in it
- Welcome screen synced with your booking calendar
- Guest sign-in for the major streaming apps, wiped at checkout
- The one-tap remote reset from your phone
What it does not cover
- No per-TV hardware to buy or ship
- No lock-in — cancel and the TVs keep their stock launcher
Founding-list price is $6 a month, locked for as long as you keep the subscription.
Fair objections, answered straight
- Guests won't bother signing in to their own Netflix.
- Hotels measured this one for us: casting systems where guests use their own accounts are now standard in the chains precisely because guests prefer their own watchlist to a stranger's. The sign-in is a QR code, not a remote-control typing exercise.
- My TVs are Roku / Fire TV, not Android TV.
- Then this product can't help you at launch — it targets Android TV and Google TV first. On Roku, the built-in Guest Mode is genuinely decent; on Fire TV there is no equivalent, which is exactly why the forums complain. The limitation section below is honest about this.
- Can't I just make a 'Guest' profile on my own account?
- You can, and thousands of hosts do. You are still lending your account to a stranger — against Netflix's paid-sharing terms since 2023 — and still changing the password after every stay that overstays its welcome. The guest profile fixes the recommendations problem, not the account problem.
- Nine dollars a month, forever, for a launcher?
- For a launcher, no. For never rotating passwords, a welcome screen that answers the Wi-Fi question before it's asked, and a checkout that cleans every session — that's the nine dollars. If your operation doesn't feel those costs, keep the free workflow; it's genuinely fine at one property with patient guests.
Join the Guest TV list
One email when it opens, with the founder price of $6 locked. Nothing else — hosts get enough platform spam as it is.